Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Luke, the writer of the Book of Acts, has been relatively thorough in describing the life of the Apostle Paul. There are probably several reasons for this: For example, he may have been particularly fond of Paul, and this history was a labor of love. Or he may have...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I surprised myself the other when I called up all the references to the word “Pharisee” in the Bible. I expected to find at least ten times as many as I did, but it is found only twelve times. Ah, but then I thought to also check the plural form. The word...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Paul bridged the testimony of his past sinful life to the testimony of his present ministry with a question. Between his comments on his youth and Pharisaism, and how the Lord saved him and commissioned him, he built a bridge with the rhetorical question: “Why...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Please turn to Matthew 13:1 – “The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Back at the end of August, in looking at Acts 22, we had a message that I entitled: “It’s All about Jesus.” There is probably a rule somewhere in John Broadus’ book on preaching, or perhaps in Spurgeon’s “Lectures to my Students,” which says...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
The other day I watched some of the PBS television show: “Nova.” “Nova” is usually about something related to science or discovery. This one was about a group of mountain climbers who were scaling the highest mountain in Antarctica. The...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
This is our 326th message from the Book of Acts. In other words, we are averaging over 12 messages per chapter. But if every verse was as pregnant and important as this one, we’d be averaging 2 or 3 times that many. This is one of those mountain peak verses. This is...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I was talking to our Missionary Tim Parrow on Monday night. He told me attendance last Sunday night was very small, but the meeting was possibly very productive. Marta was the only one who attended besides the Parrows. After the service she stayed and talked for an...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I don’t know if Paul considered this meeting before Agrippa and Festus as a trial, a church service, or some- thing in between. But he might have pictured it as an hearing before an appeals court. And when he wasn’t vindicated here, he felt obligated to take it to the...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
In one of the darker days of the history of Israel, the Ark of the Covenant was lost to the Philistines. That loss was due to the sin and superstition of people who should have known better. But as a result, both the Philistines and the Israelites learned some...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Although there are pressures constantly working against it – we live in a relatively polite society. Although, there are people who seem to delight in hurting other people’s feelings, most people don’t. And even when people think badly about other people, the only...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
As we are all very, very well aware, this is the day that the world celebrates Christmas. Millions of people who have no time for the Lord, and never think of Christ, celebrate Christmas in one fashion or another. And this is one of those days which brings out the...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
On the day of his death, as Stephen was preaching to Saul of Tarsus and his cronies, he really provoked them by saying, “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Let’s begin this morning with 2 almost opposing thoughts: “Everything is related & everything is relative.” One of the strange, interesting, and potentially difficult parts of our visit with our grandson, was that one of his mother’s sisters was there,...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
What sort of attitude, or state of mind, would you have if you were well into your second year of prison? What if you knew that you weren’t guilty of any sort of crime? What if, not only were you innocent, but after several trials which proved your innocence, you were...
